A police officer has been charged with stealing cash from a police station.

PC Robert Ward, who works in the Enfield borough for the Metropolitan Police north of London, was charged on Monday, June 18 for a string of offences including stealing cash from Edmonton Station between September 2016 and May 2017.

He has also been charged with three counts of fraud by false representation, for two separate offences, and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday, July 16.

He was first arrested on October 19, 2017 and was suspended from his duties with immediate effect.